Thread regarding Amazon.com layoffs

upside down

speaking only from my own expereince, i find myself conflicted about how easy it feels to change roles at amazon once you are inside the inner circle.
on one hand, that fluidity creates opprotunity and can feel empowering, but it also leaves me wondering whether rigor and claritiy are getting lost at senior levels...
i rarely see an l8 write a single one pager that clearly articulats direction or strategy, and instead watch strategy turn into a collage of documents owned by l6s and l7s defending their own space.

i may be missing context or blind to constraints, but it makes me question what strong leadreship really looks like here and whether i fully understand the system i am part of...


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There's very little strong leadership left at Amazon unfortunately. It's been replaced by a gradual infection of corporate twonks (rather than people passionate about tech).

The emperor's new clothes are off, he's in the street, and everyone can see Daddy Bezos and Jazzy Jassy cozying up to Mango Mu--olini.

Better get ready for a wild ride if you're still at Amazon because people can see what's happening - and the only option left for them to protect is to hit companies in the pocket.

It's coming...

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One thing apparent in your post is that you have poor grammar and punctuation.

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Many of our SDMs come from TPM to SDM transitions, and that may help explain why Amazon excels at basic cloud infrastructure and retail. Truly hard problem spaces like AI appear to be much more challenging for us.

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